The Gospel of Judas: A Novel

When Judas falls in love with Jesus, it's a disaster waiting to happen… Judas is a young Jewish man in Roman-occupied Ancient Israel who harbors a dark secret: he has a huge crush on a local wizard who is rapidly gaining fame and notoriety… a wizard named Jesus Christ. When Judas finally gets the chance to meet Jesus, he is blown away by Jesus's magical powers but also by his wit, charm, and charisma. Judas jumps at the chance to join up as a new recruit among Jesus's disciples. Jesus teaches magic to Judas, and a warm, happy romance develops between them, one in which Judas blossoms as both a young wizard and as a young man and achieves a coming of age—until Jesus's two other lovers, a woman ex-prostitute named Mary Magdalene who happens to be Jesus's wife, and a boy named Lazarus, threaten to throw Judas's romance with Jesus into the fire, and the flames of envy and resentment begin to swirl in Judas's heart. Will love win, or will the darkness of bitterness and anger consume Judas's heart and threaten not only his love for Jesus, but his loyalty to Jesus's strange new religion, which is named Christianity? In this historical fantasy romance, one of the greatest and most famous villains in history finally gets to tell his side of the story. Yes, this novel is a fantasy romance between Jesus and Judas, and, yes, it's that Jesus, the one and only, and Judas, yes, the Judas you might have heard of, where Jesus Christ is a wizard (well, you might think of him as a dual-class wizard/cleric) and Judas is his student, his disciple and his apostle, and his lover. But, if you pick up this novel and read it, you will see that this time, the story doesn't play out the way you expect it to. This novel is a standalone novel complete story in the genres of historical fantasy, queer fantasy romance, and magical realism literary fiction, which runs to about 250 pages. Get ready to read the greatest story ever told like no one has ever told it before.